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Poetry and Mysticism

By Colin Wilson

Book information

Publisher
City Lights Books
Year
1969
ISBN
0872861821, 9780872861824
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2071311 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
81\81
Topic
Art
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-07-18 20:00:58

Description

A new book by Colin Wilson is always news. Areligious mysticism may now be seen at the core ofall his work : Sri Ramakrishna is one of the keyfigures in The Outsider and his Religion and theRebel contains a whole series of studies of mystics.In the present book, Colin Wilson has developed anargument which runs counter to the most populartrends in occult thinking today^ to the extent thatsome might even call it “non-Zen” . Finding thatmystical experience and poetic inspiration can be“pursued scientifically” and learned as one learns aforeign language, he has small enthusiasm for psyche­delics and “non-thought” methods of arriving at theexpansion of consciousness, showing him self to bemuch closer to William James’ Varieties of ReligiousExperience than to Alan Watts or D. T. Suzuki.

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